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I was the original developer of the community version of the website <strong>Historici.nl</strong>, a website for professional historians working on Dutch history, which was officially launched in January 2014 by the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Please note that the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160526193145/https://www.historici.nl/">original Drupal version</a> I developed no longer exists and has been replaced by a <a href="https://www.historici.nl">Wordpress version</a> in 2017.</p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:03:25 +0000gerben zaagsma76 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgEuropean History Primary Sourceshttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/projects/european-history-primary-sources
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>European History Primary Sources (EHPS) is an index of websites that offer access to digitised primary sources and born-digital sources on the history of Europe. I built EHPS in 2008 and was involved as technical maintainer until mid-2014.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:34:00 +0000gerben zaagsma75 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgYiddish Sourceshttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/projects/yiddish-sources
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="http://yiddish-sources.com" target="_blank">Yiddish Sources</a> is a portal for anyone who is interested in Yiddish and Yiddish Studies. I first launched it in 2005 as <a class="ext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080508021547re_/www.eui.eu/Personal/Researchers/Zaagsma/Yiddish/" target="_blank">Yiddish Sources in Historical Research</a>. It is part of the <a class="ext" href="http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html" target="_blank">WWW-VL History Central Catalogue</a> that is hosted at the <a class="ext" href="http://www.eui.eu/Home.aspx" target="_blank">European University Institute</a>. Yiddish Sources was made with the open source content management system <a class="ext" href="http://drupal.org/" target="_blank">Drupal</a>. </p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:22:06 +0000gerben zaagsma74 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgOpening remarks: From Tablet to Tablet – workshop Jewish Studies & Digital Humanities, Hamburg, 4-6 September 2017http://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/07-09-2017/opening-remarks-tablet-tablet-%E2%80%93-workshop-jewish-studies-digital-humanities-hamburg-4
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>*** This is the written version of opening remarks I gave at <a href="http://www.igdj-hh.de/news-leser-152/tagung-from-tablet-to-tablet.html" target="_blank">From Tablet to Tablet</a>, a workshop on Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities supported by the <a href="http://rothschildfoundation.eu/" target="_blank">Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe</a> in co-operation with the <a href="http://www.igdj-hh.de/IGDJ-home.html" target="_blank">Institute for the History of the German Jews</a> that took place in Hamburg between 4-6 September 2017. Several introductiory blog posts and discussions with participants where posted on the <a href="http://yerusha.eu/?page_id=605" target="_blank">Yerusha blog</a>. </em></p>
<p><em>My warmfelt thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/sinemadar" target="_blank">Sinem Adar</a> for comments on an earlier version. I have drawn in some parts upon an earlier <a href="https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/abstract/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.9344/" target="_blank">article On Digital History </a>published in 2013 as part of a <a href="https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/515/volume/128/issue/4/" target="_blank">thematic issue of the BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review on digital history</a>.</em></p>
<p><em>These remarks are intended as a discussion piece so feedback and comments are most welcome!</em></p>
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</div></div></div>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:51:26 +0000gerben zaagsma115 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgDigital history and the hidden archivehttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/19-04-2015/digital-history-and-hidden-archive
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Two months ago an important conference took place at the European University Institute in Florence on <a href="http://www.eui.eu/SeminarsAndEvents/Events/2015/February/PublicHistoryandtheMedia.aspx">Public History and the Media</a>. Exploring a variety of forms of public history, the second day was devoted to the topic of ‘digital public history’. While the links between the two fields are fairly obvious they are of course not the same. As one participant put it: “Digital History is not the same as Public History *but* Public History needs Digital History”. </p>
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<span>Various projects that were presented or referenced during this day explored ways in which the public can be engaged in, contribute to, and co-author history. Thus the </span><a href="https://phillyhistorytruck.wordpress.com/">Philadelphia Public History Truck</a><span>, “a mobile museum project which partners with Philly neighborhood grassroots organizations to explore local history”, enables new voices and audiences to be heard and engage in (local) history. The </span><a href="http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu">Europeana 1914-1918</a><span> provides an excellent example of enaging the public to create a new user-generated online archive/museum. Digtal history functions in an enabling way here: new voices/audiences and user-generated materials empower ‘the public’ in various ways. But clearly these are also new forms of creating history. </span></p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 19 Apr 2015 14:01:14 +0000gerben zaagsma107 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgSlides for skills seminar on Search and Data Mining, Master of European History, University of Luxembourg, 11 December 2014http://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/11-12-2014/slides-skills-seminar-search-and-data-mining-university-luxembourg-11-december-201-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The slides for an introductory lecture on Search and Data Mining that I gave at the University of Luxembourg on 11 December 2014 <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/gerbenzaagsma/20141211-seminar-luxembourg-zaagsma" target="_blank">are now online</a>.</p>
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A special issue of the <em>BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review</em> on Digital History has just been published. I guest-edited the articles section and wrote the introduction. The issue <a href="http://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/515/volume/128/issue/4/" target="_blank">can be found here</a>.</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:57:54 +0000gerben zaagsma95 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgConference report jüdische Geschichte digital/ jewish digital history onlinehttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/10-09-2013/conference-report-j%C3%BCdische-geschichte-digital-jewish-digital-history-online
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>My report on the conference jüdische Geschichte digital/ jewish digital history (Hamburg, 13-14 June 2013) is now <a href="http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=5011" target="_blank">online on H-Soz-u-Kult</a>. </p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:26:29 +0000gerben zaagsma93 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgNew article out in L'histoire contemporaine à l'ère numérique/ Contemporary History in the Digital Agehttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/23-07-2013/new-article-out-lhistoire-contemporaine-%C3%A0-l%C3%A8re-num%C3%A9rique-contemporary-history
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A new book entitled <a href="http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&amp;seitentyp=produkt&amp;pk=76801&amp;concordeid=574048" target="_blank">L'histoire contemporaine à l'ère numérique/ Contemporary History in the Digital Age</a> was published with Peter Lang recently. It contains articles from the <a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.lu" target="_blank">Digital Humanities Luxembourg (DHLU)</a> 2009 and 2012 conferences (see also <a href="http://www.cvce.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=9442e254-4547-4c27-b4af-d5a4742eef78&amp;groupId=10136" target="_blank">this call for papers for the upcoming december 2013 conference</a> on the theme of <em>Reading historical sources in the digital age</em>).</p>
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</p></div></div></div>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:14:49 +0000gerben zaagsma90 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgIt’s the context stupidhttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/14-07-2013/it%E2%80%99s-context-stupid
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On July 9, 2013, a conference took place in the Jewish Museum in Berlin entitled <a href="http://www.ehri-project.eu/drupal/public-history-holocaust" target="_blank">Public History of the Holocaust - Historical Research in the Digital Age</a>. One of the issues brought up in the closing forum discussion was the loss of context in working with online digital archives and/or libraries, a point made by Stefanie Schüler-Springorum who used the example of doing newspapers research to illustrate it. Having used this example often to illustrate the methodological challenges of doing history in the digital age, I was very happy to hear it being addressed in the forum. For loss of context, or loss of awareness of context, when using and working with digital resources is a key issue that is in dire need of more discussion by historians, whether they describe themselves as digital or not. </p></div></div></div>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:52:34 +0000gerben zaagsma89 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgDoing history in the digital age: history as a hybrid practicehttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/16-03-2013/doing-history-digital-age-history-hybrid-practice
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In reading up on various topics to prepare my lectures for a <a href="http://dho2013.wordpress.com" target="_blank">digital history course I am currently teaching</a> I am struck by the extent to which a dichotomy is created between supposedly new ‚digital’ ways of doing history versus traditional, or if you will analog, historical practices. Whether the focus is on data as a new type of source, digital methods to analyze it, new forms of academic publishing or <a href="http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/data/gibbs-owens-2012-spring/#pWattnmuteaihddalomtihwEidqwwptpivAmhnepfrpetpietmssfdfihscfhfiforfsTmmdenfircbaasiIcapfwcmotpihbaTapkllatgar">calls to change our narrative way of writing in order to better integrate and explicate our methodology</a>, the suggestion is invariably that we face a fundamental break with past practices.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:22:06 +0000gerben zaagsma88 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgCourse Digital Historical Researchhttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/16-02-2013/course-digital-historical-research
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This week I started teaching on a new course entitled <em>Digital Historical Research</em>. The course is offered to employees of the <a href="http://www.huygens.knaw.nl">Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands</a> and <a href="http://www.niod.nl">NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies</a> from february-july 2013. It is organized by myself and my NIOD colleague Hinke Piersma. I am teaching several of the classes and will upload the slides to <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/gerbenzaagsma/presentations">my slideshare account</a>. The course website (in Dutch) can be found <a href="http://dho2013.wordpress.com/">here</a>. </p>
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</div></div></div>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:07:33 +0000gerben zaagsma86 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgReport Digital History workshop 7 January 2013 at Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlandshttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/25-01-2013/report-digital-history-workshop-7-january-2013-huygens-institute-history-netherlands
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>[This is an English translation of a <a href="http://www.historici.nl/Nieuws/Actueel/Verslag_studiedag_Digitale_Geschiedenis_7-1-13" target="_blank">short report</a> on the digital history workshop held on 7 January 2013 at the Huygens ING, as it appeared on the Dutch website <a href="http://www.historici.nl/" target="_blank">Historici.nl</a>. Full disclosure: I did not only write this report but also organized the workshop and gave the introductory lecture. More information on the workshop, including the slides of many presentations, biographies of the speakers and abstracts of the papers (several of them in English) can be found on the website: <a href="http://www.digitale-geschiedenis.nl" target="_blank">www.digitale-geschiedenis.nl</a>.]</em></p>
<p>On 7 January 2013, the <a href="http://www.knhg.nl/genootschap/about-the-rnhs/" target="_blank">Royal Netherlands Historical Society (KNHG)</a> and the <a href="http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/" target="_blank">Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands</a> (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences) organized a workshop on the theme of digital history. The aim of this well-attended workshop was to discuss the methodological and epistemological changes that are brought about in historical research as a result of new technologies and the availability of digitized sources. With discussants for every paper, and about 50 participants in total, time was clearly too short to deal with all questions that came to the fore.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:28:15 +0000gerben zaagsma84 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgTransitions: on using Drupal in the humanitieshttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/20-08-2012/transitions-using-drupal-humanities
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span>In this post I want to discuss the use of Drupal and Drupal distributions in academia, especially the humanities, where </span><span>Drupal has become an increasingly popular CMS in recent years.</span></p>
<p><span>This has not always been the case. Traditionally, Wordpress has been a popular choice among humanists, especially for personal websites/blogs, and in humanities institutes in general, particularly for conference and project websites (see also my post on building a blog with Drupal <a href="http://thesurfaceappearanceofthings.com/blog/27-06-2012/building-blog-drupal">here</a>). </span><span>Given its relatively easy learning curve, out-of-the-box functionality and general ease of use this is an understandable choice, if also a self-perpetuating one:</span><span> g</span><span>iven the scarce availability of resources in many humanities institutes, previous experience with a particular system is often a key criterion, even </span><span>when other systems might suit a project's functional demands better. </span></p></div></div></div>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:11:58 +0000gerben zaagsma69 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgBuilding a blog with Drupalhttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/27-06-2012/building-blog-drupal
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When I decided to create this website the first question that came up was: which CMS will I use? I built a previous version with Wordpress which is pretty much ideal for a blog-oriented website. But as it happens I built several websites with Drupal already and I currently work as a web developer using Drupal Commons to create a major new website relating to Dutch history.</p>
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